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Today's Labor History

11/15/2016

 
On this date in 1881, the founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions was held in Pittsburgh. It urged enactment of employer liability, compulsory education, uniform apprenticeship and child and convict labor laws. Five years later it changed its name to the American Federation of Labor, the precursor to today's AFL-CIO.

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